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Pang-la: the best "terrace" of the Himalayas
"From a mountaineering point of view it was impossible to imagine a more horrific". That's the first impression he made on the north side of Mallory on Everest 1921. Camino en Rongbuk Base Camp, mole impressive you to step out from the top of Pang-la, undoubtedly the most privileged viewpoint of Qomolangma (Tibetan name). Thither we went.
Where is the lake of floating stones?
Where is this picture and what was causing erosion at the base?
How can the response be linked to the delimitation of the boundary between Argentina and Chile? Rivers change course, disputed sovereignty, patriotic antics. The writer and traveler Gerardo Bartolomé surprise us again, within a week, histories and landscapes of Patagonia.
Swaziland: the satrap and his five thousand virgins
His harem of fornication is multiplied at the same rate as their finances emetic. Mswati, lord of an estate called Swaziland, landlocked country bordering South Africa and Mozambique, amassed a fortune more than encrypting 100 million .
Sri Lanka: the old Arab community and the tsunami
Its history goes back to the V, when Arab merchants established a port and a small colony that supplied commercial routes (...)
(...) The father, pointing my camera, I said: When you return to your country, shows photos. You will come to help someone then? I do not know, do not know. - And I could not say more.
What the hell am I doing here?
What traveler has not ever had that question away from home? Even the most fascinating trips toll charges, by the way, occasional desolate place. Sites where no one seems interested in going and where, however, is a. In the Tibetan people Shega, a one-day Everest Base Camp in Rongbuk, the happy question reverberated more strongly than ever within me.
El Carmen: the fire and blood battle between Brazil and Argentina
El Carmen I came to looking for a sacred tree of the indigenous, "El Algarrobo Gualichu". The chronicles speak of it dating 1833, when the strongman of Argentina, Rosas, carried out a campaign against the Indians. The only vintage image I found the town was one of a French traveler, Alcide D'Orbigny.
Ring 300 miles to go El Bierzo
A nature trail around the whole region. More 300 km, in 15 steps monographic. A kind of Camino de Santiago, the famous route signposted Xacobea, in the midst of steep peaks. Almost abandoned villages, ancient trees, huts, brañas and animals (...), by Javier BRANDOLI.
The newest hotel in Africa
Agulhas Country Lodge Posada de la Almay. The hotel's southernmost continent. No more. Is final. Es Cape Agulhas. Return is only.
Where does this gun pointing?
What protects this ancient canyon city? Who might be the enemies of those who had to defend? A track: this place claims to prop up the oldest building in Patagonia.
A sex shop in the desert
The first image one has of the sex shop is a small bar Roonie, flimsy chairs and hundreds of panties, bras and underwear hanging from the ceiling. On a case there is a trophy that holds a set of lingerie XXL.
Albania: Surrealism in the last European frontier
Came to several dead villages. Sunken roof, crumbling shacks, mangy and sickly dogs. Some human beings are moved between the stones as survivors of a bombing.
Tashilumpo: Giant Buddha Rats
Tashilunpo monastery was home to the second authority in Tibet, The Panchen Lama. When the Dalai Lama fled the Chinese invasion, Beijing sought and found their support. But the idyll did not last long and ended up imprisoned Panchen Lama. I'm in Shigatse, at the foot of the largest Buddha statue in the world. A monk asked me 30 photograph yuan. Is it true that some of them are Chinese agents?
Erg Chebbi Dunes: the home of the Berber
In southeastern Morocco, on the border with Algeria, is one of the doors of the Sahara, Berber land. It is without doubt one of the most beautiful places I've encountered on the planet. A perfect evening, sitting on the dunes. The photos speak for themselves.
Wulaia: Fitz Roy Indians
We were in the ship's stern, with our life jackets and very warm, ready to embark on the boats. "We follow you, we get us a picture of the little Indians. "he said smiling Mrs. Chilean. "What pressure!"I thought. By Gerardo BARTHOLOMEW.
The circus of children with AIDS
Perhaps this post will be understood only with the eight pictures and the holder. There are many stories that raisins and some stories that you stay. The circus of children with AIDS is one of those stories that hit you, by Javier BRANDOLI.
Salto Angel, Venezuela: King of heaven and the quest for gold
The 9 October 1937 la avioneta de James Crawford Angel -Jimmy Angel- touched the top of Auyan-tepui. It was the first time a human being trampled on Auyán. The landing gear broke in so daring maneuver and the aircraft was unfit to take off. There was no alternative, had to go on foot. Almost half a month took the browser Jimmy Angel and his fellow expedition to find the only way down and down from the top of Auyan-tepui to camp Uruyén, where he hoped Felix Cardona. Only had food for a week. But this story begins a few years ago ...
Biosphere II: the failure of the Eden of human guinea pigs
Those chosen for the glory had passed demanding entrance exams, were supposed to mature, stable and committed, but as soon began living together, were divided into factions almost immediately, conspired among themselves, openly hated and even hid food. Although it could be argued that finding such phenomena of selfishness and conflict, might not have been necessary to spend many millions of dollars and a mangrove planting in the desert.
Shigatse: and finally… ¡A photo of the Dalai Lama!
¿We traveled to see it to be? Are we looking for destinations on the map or even just to get to know? On any trip, inevitably be in places you do not see or view sites that, last time, seems you've never been. On my way to the slopes of Everest, Shigatse was a couple of nights on the road map, a monastery, Tashilunpo the, and a fort in ruins guarded by wild dogs.
La Caleta colony sacked
[st] What's the story behind this ancient engraving? What is the artist known explorer of this scene?…
In the guts of a story
“Desplomado, snoring. Are 10:15 morning. I try not to make noise and grab the pen on the table and put my name, Name and signature, as I did when I was here last time (as it will no). All very quietly so as not to wake. Call the elevator and when the doors open man, the security guard of a public building where they are settled land claims, continues with his head on his shoulder removed and still achieve a final hear snoring "
Other's eyes
It is a question with a thousand faces. On the road, in gutters, in their fields, about transistor, in the shade of a tree, in a crowded bus, in a tractor trailer, among the stalls of a market. The look of the other surprises you at every step, sometimes fleeting, other infinite. Zarandea, restless, softens, forces you to think, as. It happens that, when we are so far from home, the other is us.
Staten Island: the lighthouse at the end of the world
If there is a place in Patagonia, we can still consider unattainable, that is the Staten Island. This is nothing more nor less than the last link in the Andes, which flows into the Atlantic succumbing their impious Wuthering Heights in the Atlantic waves driven by winds Antarctic.
Riding of the Queen of Africa
(...) The African Queen, the truth, never sailed these waters. He did in Eastern Africa. That was his role skippered by Charlie Allnut to supply the villages of East Africa at the beginning of the First World War (...). When a film helps you discover a continent.
